I am Zoltán Jakab.
Welcome to my personal webpage: you can find some information on my work, private life, family and codes for macroeconomic models (e.g. the Dynamic General Equilibrium Model on Hungary).
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Zoltán Jakab
PLACE OF BIRTH: Budapest
HOME : Washington DC
CITIZENSHIP: Hungarian
E-MAIL: private: jakabmz@gmail.com
REPEC page: http://authors.repec.org/pro/pja127/
Personal webpage: http://5mp.eu/web.php?a=jakabmz
QUALIFICATION: PHD IN ECONOMICS, Central European University Economics Department, Thesis defended on 3 November 2008 Title of dissertation: „Topics in Open Economy Macroeconomics: Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through and An Estimated DSGE Model of the Hungarian Economy” M.SC. IN ECONOMICS: 1991-96, Budapest University of Economic Sciences at the Faculty and Department of Economics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
May 2011 - Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund Research department Washington DC Former positions:
Aug. 2009 – Dec. 2010 Director for Macroeconomic Analysis Office of Fiscal Council Republic of Hungary
Feb. 2006 – July 2009 Principal economist Magyar Nemzeti Bank Monetary Assesment and Economic Analysis Major responsibilities: monetary policy advicing, head of DSGE modell development
2003. szept. –2009. július Member of Working Group on Econometric Modelling of the ESCB Nov.
2003 – Feb. 2006 Head of Unit Model development unit Conjunctural Assessment and Projections Division Economics Department Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary)
May 2001 – Oct. 2003 Deputy Manager Conjunctural Assessment and Projections Division Economics Department Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary)
July 1999 – Apr. 2001 Deputy Manager External Sector and Balance of Payments Analysis Division Economics and Research Department Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary)
October 1996 – June 1999 Economist External Sector and Balance of Payments Analysis Division Economics and Research Department Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary)
LANGUAGE SKILLS: English: fluent, written and spoken German: fair
COMPUTER SKILLS: Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Latex, Scientific Workspace, Matlab, Dynare, Winrats, Eviews, Statistica, PcGive, Gauss, Limdep, Winsolve, Troll, Dynare, IRIS
Membership: European Economic Association Hungarian Association of Economic Science
Advising positions:
Dec. 2009 – Apr 2011 Technical Advisor to the Bank of Albania (IMF) in building a Policy-oriented Macro Model of Albania
Apr. 2007 – Apr. 2008 Technical Advisor to the Bank of Albania (IMF) in building a Macroeconometric Model of Albania
March 2005 Technical Advisor to the National Bank of Republic of Macedonia (IMF) in determining and estimating the equilibrium exchange rate for Macedonia
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